Last Updated on Friday, 27 July 2012 01:54 Written by deepwellarchive Friday, 27 July 2012 01:53

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Medical Image Archive: If the Storage Were Free, the Cloud Would Be Cheaper…and Better!

July 27, 2012

That’s a pretty bold statement, but we can back it up.

The typical costs to deliver and maintain sustainable archive storage include:

• Capital acquisition costs for hardware and software
• Hardware and software maintenance
• System administration costs
• Technology refresh and data migration costs
• Capacity expansions, data protection costs
• Storage interoperability issues
• Data center resource costs, power, cooling and bandwidth costs

So get rid of the capital costs for storage hardware and software and what happens? Not much. Even in a year where a storage/archive capital purchase (new implementation or capacity expansion) takes place, the “capex” is typically only 30% or less of the TCO for that year.

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